About

Jacqueline de Jong was born in the Netherlands in 1939 and showed a keen interest in the arts from an early age. In the early 1960s, her association with leading figures such as the painter Asger Jorn and the writer Guy Debord, both initiators of the Situationist International, quickly brought her and her paintings and prints to the European avant-garde scene of the time. In 1962 she launched the magazine The Situationist Times, which she ran until 1967 with great strength of character, bringing her into contact with a large number of artists.

Influenced in her early years by the colourful …